Catherine never complained
My cousin Catherine was born with a heart defect. She began having (then-experimental) surgeries to correct it at the age of two. She had many such surgeries and spent countless…
I see amazing women. What do YOU see?
Here’s a short (about three-minutes) video I put together for the What I See project:
15 Empowering Things to Tell Your Kids (and Yourself)
In the summer of 2012, I was cracking up (not in a good way). I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. So I did both. Often. And intensely. Things…
I Had Forgotten All About Tootsie. Until Today.
I cried along with actor Dustin Hoffman in this interview on the driving force behind the movie Tootsie, and why he made it. He SO gets it.
Feelings, Fitness, Food, Health, Internet / Social Media, Joy, Just for fun, Life, Love, Relationships, TED, Writing
10 Cool Lists of 10 Cool Things to Love
It’s no secret that, besides this soon-to-be-amazing personal blog, I also run an already amazing (she writes none-too-modestly) website not surprisingly called AmazingWomenRock.com, which has, over the last five years,…
10 Things I Loved About @TEDGlobal Day 1 via TED Live
I love TED. I have since I watched my first TED talk about eight years ago. And I’ve watched many, many, many others since. I’ve even spoken myself, at TEDxAjman,…
29 Amazing Women @TEDGlobal 2013 Stage
Amazing and brilliant women are everywhere, including on TED and TEDx stages worldwide. There just aren’t enough of them on those stages. This year at TEDGlobal 2013, in Edinburgh, 29…
I’m confused Facebook… (Trigger warning)
May 2013: I was temporarily blocked from Facebook on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, for posting this image on my AmazingWomenRock Facebook page in support of the open letter campaign jointly…
Blocked for being a “bad girl?” (Trigger warning)
I was temporarily blocked from Facebook (i.e. access to my personal account and my four pages) on Wednesday, May 22. It happened after I posted content in support of an…
How to report hate speech on Facebook
Here’s how to report spam or inappropriate content on Facebook: Hover at the top right hand corner of the post (see pink arrow on the screen shot below)